Club For Growth Strikes Trump Again

Yesterday, the Club for Growth called Donald Trump a liberal who supports universal healthcare and tax hikes on the rich.

Today, the millionaire businessman is under attack for using eminent domain to evict an elderly widow in Atlantic City back in 1997 so he could build a parking lot for limousines, Club for Growth claims.

“First we find out Donald Trump is a liberal on taxes, health care, and trade. Now we find out he’s an abuser of eminent domain. Eminent domain abuse is an assault on freedom, pure and simple” said Club for Growth President Chris Chocola.

“No real conservative would ever use eminent domain in order to take the private property of citizens. I’m shocked and appalled by these revelations. Club members and conservatives ought to know where Donald Trump stands on the issues.”

The press release goes on to quote Trump from a 2005 interview with Neil Cavuto on Fox News, where he says he supports the Supreme Court decision Kelo v. New London, where New London, CT transferred land from lower income residents to a private developer who promised thousands of jobs.

Trump said, “I happen to agree with it 100 percent, not that I would want to use it. But the fact is, if you have a person living in an area that’s not even necessarily a good area, and government, whether it’s local or whatever, government wants to build a tremendous economic development, where a lot of people are going to be put to work and make area that’s not good into a good area, and move the person that’s living there into a better place.”